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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

Edmund Burke

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

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